Mission Lifeguard promotional video

Mission Lifeguard is an initiative by the North American Division Youth Ministries department to reach out to missing young people.

Exclusive: "The Record Keeper" director talks about why the series was cancelled

Last week, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists suspended the release of its highly anticipated dramatic series, "The Record Keeper."

The series was based on "The Great Controversy" by Ellen White, but the cancellation of the series has itself become a controversy and somewhat of a public relations situation for the General Conference.

A Sabbath Blog reached out to Jason Satterlund, director of the project, for his thoughts on the cancellation of "The Record Keeper" and its impact on the Adventist Church.

Below is our exclusive interview in full:

What's next for "The Record Keeper? Is there a future for the series?

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How young people shared Jesus during Global Youth Day 2014

[Last] month’s Global Youth Day was the second annual event that sent hundreds of thousands of Seventh-day Adventist youth and young adults out of church for service projects in neighborhoods and communities worldwide.

The March 15 event was also broadcast on the Internet live, highlighting projects from 20 sites. This year’s event had nearly three times the live online participation from last year, with more than 27,000 media publications on the event’s website and Facebook page.

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This is why the suspension of "The Record Keeper" is important to young Adventists

The Seventh-day Adventist world church leadership suspended the release of its highly anticipated dramatic web series, "The Record Keeper."

The announcement came Friday afternoon via the world church's news service, Adventist News Network.

Here are a few questions you may be asking yourself and our attempt to answer them:

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Watch Global Youth Day 2014 live online

Global Youth Day 2014 is here!

Right now, millions of Adventist youth around the world are sharing God's love with their communities through acts of kindness.

Watch a live stream from around the world below:

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Adventist Church wants millions of youth to skip church on March 15, here's why you should too

UPDATE: Global Youth Day is happening right now. Watch the live video.

Adventist youth around the world plan to skip church on Saturday, March 15. Instead of listening to another sermon, these youth plan to actually be the sermon!

It's called Global Youth Day (GYD) and the General Conference Youth Ministries wants youth to go out and share God's love to their communities through acts of kindness.

Eight million young people participated in last year's Global Youth Day, according to the GC Youth Ministries Dept. It was also the Adventist Church's largest social media event. Four million people were talking about it on the Internet, according to Adventist News Network.

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"The Record Keeper" will continue, announces General Conference

"The Record Keeper" has been saved, but you may have to wait a bit longer before you can see it.

The General Conference announced Friday night that work will continue on the church's highly anticipated web series.

The Record Keeper, an upcoming dramatic show based on The Great Controversy, was believed to be in danger of not being released.

Adventist college students began a campaign to save the steampunk web series. They created a Facebook page and began releasing videos featuring young people explaining why the series should continue. (You can watch those videos below.)

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In Serbia, European Adventist youth impact community, strengthen faith

[Photos: Corrado Cozzi/Adventist News Network]

Seventh-day Adventist young people helped clear the air this week in Novi Sad’s Liberty Square, where they asked passers-by to trade their cigarettes for watermelon and other fresh fruit on a warm summer day.

Benjamin Zihlman and Reimo Butscher from Switzerland expressed surprise when most of the residents were willing to swap not just their lit cigarettes, but their entire pack of cigarettes. Others went further, indicating a desire to quit smoking altogether and exchanging contact information with the young volunteers.

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Adventist boy still missing in Bangladesh after deadly building collapse

In Bangladesh, an Adventist boy is still missing after a building collapsed and killed more than 1,000 people.

Adventist News Network reports Bitu Baroi had been working at one of the garment factories inside the building when it collapsed on April 24.

The eight-story building housed five garment factories that employed thousands of workers, according to the Associated Press.

Ten Adventist young people were among the first responders. They helped rescue 30 victims, four of whom, were still alive, ANN reported. A few days later, 125 more Adventist youth helped the rescue teams.

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Global Youth Day was the Adventist Church’s largest social media event

Last Saturday’s Global Youth Day was the single largest international mobilization of Seventh-day Adventists through social media, said Gilbert Cangy, the world church’s Youth Ministries director.

As hundreds of thousands of Adventist youth participated in community outreach, the church’s Youth departments worldwide reported their service activities live on Hope Channel in Australia, Germany and the United States.

More than 80,000 youth were connected through the social media – including Facebook and Twitter – and over 4 million people were talking about the initiative on the Internet.

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Youth around the world are skipping church today to share God

On Sabbath, March 16, millions of youth around the world will hear one less sermon and instead BE the sermon.

Instead of sitting in church and listening to a sermon, the General Conference Youth Ministries Department wants youth to share God through acts of kindness in their communities. The GC Youth Ministries Dept. says 8 million youth will be participating.

This is all part of something called Global Youth Day. The theme is "One in Compassion," and it is meant to kick off the worldwide Youth Week of Prayer.

Why they're doing it

The GC wants youth to feel that they are part of a global movement and that they are all working together with a common mission of service.

The Youth Department hopes Global Youth Day will be "a much needed positive and constructive response to perceived fragmentation," according to the department's proposal.

So here's the plan:

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NBA Player Chris Paul agrees to meet with Adventist girl who lost her mom to cancer

UPDATE: Chris Paul agrees to meet with Leah Clayton. Watch her reaction

Image credit: NBA

Students at Southern Adventist University have been asking us to spread the word about this. So we're joining them to #HelpLeeMeetCP3.

Laurence Clayton, a student at Southern Adventist University, had a very difficult decision to make.

His mom had terminal cancer and he didn't know how long she would live.

But Laurence was only one semester away from graduating. If he stayed at school, there would be a chance that his mom would get to see him become a college graduate. However, there was also a chance she could die without her son at her side.

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The 25 Best Adventist memes of 2012

Memes. Oh, memes...

2012 definitely flooded our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds with those pictures.

In case you you don't know what a meme is (we won't judge you), a meme is "an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture," according to the dictionary.

Well, soon people started creating memes about Seventh-day Adventist culture in North America.

These memes —part humor, part commentary, and part self-reflection— gave us a chance to look at ourselves and laugh.

And while you may be as tired of memes (as we are), we thought we'd take one last look at some of our favorite Adventist memes of 2012 (give or take a few days).

So here are our favorites, in no particular order. Credit for each meme can be found beneath each image. At the bottom of the post, vote for your favorite meme. Enjoy!

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1,500 Adventist youth march against world hunger

Photo credit: Nathan Brown / Facebook

1,500 Adventist young people decided this week that #enoughisenough.

On Jan. 3, around 1,500 Adventist kids and teens marched the streets of Brisbane, Australia asking people to do more to end world hunger, Record magazine reported.

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Watch live online: 1,800 Adventist youth attend South Pacific Division youth congress

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More than 1,800 Adventist young people are camping out and worshipping together at a division-wide youth congress in Australia, Record magazine reported.

Kids from more than 14 countries across the South Pacific are attending the South Pacific Division's World Changers Youth Congress in Brisbane, Queensland.

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Next GYC conference to take place in Orlando

The 13th annual Generation of Youth for Christ (GYC) conference is scheduled to happen January 1-5, 2014 in Orlando, Fla.

According to the event website, the theme will be “Before Men and Angels,” and is based on a Bible verse found in 1 Corinthians 4:9:

"For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men." 1 Cor. 4:9 (NKJV)

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Watch Generation of Youth for Christ LIVE online

This year's Generation of Youth for Christ (GYC) conference is taking place from Dec. 28, 2012 through Jan. 1, 2013 in Seattle, Wash.

"Acts: The Revolution Continues," is the theme for this 5-day youth event.

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No matter how many times you ditch Him, God will never give up on you

In 2006, a skit was performed illustarting how God never gives up on you, even when you abandon Him. Since then, this skit has been performed countless times by youth groups around the world. If you still haven't seen Lifehouse's Everything Skit, you can watch it here.

Adventist Church's official statement regarding Angus T. Jones from "Two and a Half Men"

UPDATE: Angus T. Jones responds about his comments. Read it here.
Read the Adventist Church's official statement on Angus T. Jones here.

What happens when a famous TV star decides to follow Jesus and become a Seventh-day Adventist? We're all finding out right now.

Angus T. Jones, 19, is one of the stars from the popular CBS comedy "Two and Half Men." He recently got baptized and became a member of a Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Los Angeles area.

Angus T. Jones' interview at the Adventist Media Center

On Oct. 8, Jones taped an interview at the Adventist Media Center for a new program called Turning Point.

In the interview, Jones talks about how he accepted Jesus in his life and how he ended up getting baptized at small Adventist church in southern California.

You can watch the full interview here:

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Southern Adventist University student dies

Cherise Miller, a sophomore nursing major at Southern Adventist University died Wednesday night, according to students at the university. The Tennessee-based Adventist university has not yet released any information concerning the student at this time.

Please keep Cherise Miller's friends and family in your prayers.

Update: Southern Adventist University commented Friday on Miller's death:

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